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Pentagon On Lockdown: Metro Shooting Prompts Pentagon Lockdown

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Pentagon On Lockdown: Metro Shooting Prompts Pentagon Lockdown

WASHINGTON – A gunman opened fire at the subway entrance to Pentagon complex Thursday evening, wounding two Pentagon police officers, a spokesman said.

The alleged gunman also was wounded, said Chris Layman, a spokesman for the Pentagon Force Protection Agency. Authorities said all three were taken to a hospital. None the injuries were thought to be life-threatening, Layman said.

Layman said the suspect walked up to the subway entrance at 6:40 p.m. and opened fire. He hit two officers. The officers fired back, and the suspect was hit. His injures are more serious.

Pentagon On Lockdown: Metro Shooting Prompts Pentagon Lockdown

Terrorism is not suspected.
 
maybe suicide by cop? apparently the mope was very calm, reached into a bag like he was getting an ID and pulled out a piece and started firing
 
Countdown to attributing this directly to President Obama....
 
Another example that homegrown nutjobs are more dangerous to this country than the terrorist boogeyman we are spending billions on to thwart.
 
Personally, I'm more afraid of kids. Children. With their shifty eyes and their disproportional bodies. No real moral compass either, never know what they'll do. Go from sweetest things in the world to screaming demons at the snap of a finger.

Frightening.
 
Another example that homegrown nutjobs are more dangerous to this country than the terrorist boogeyman we are spending billions on to thwart.

Are you serious? This guy only managed to wound two police officers. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, brought down the World Trade Center, blew up four airliners, blew up a section of the Pentagon, and killed nearly 3,000 civilians.

How could you make such an inane statement?
 
Are you serious? This guy only managed to wound two police officers. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, brought down the World Trade Center, blew up four airliners, blew up a section of the Pentagon, and killed nearly 3,000 civilians.

How could you make such an inane statement?

Because if you lump every single bad thing done in the country together, then that's worse than AQ! That means that we're obviously wasting our money that we spend on domestic security, despite the fact that the bulk of that money goes toward things that protect against all threats, be they homegrown or foreign. That means that terrorism isn't a big deal. Or something.
 
Because if you lump every single bad thing done in the country together, then that's worse than AQ! That means that we're obviously wasting our money that we spend on domestic security, despite the fact that the bulk of that money goes toward things that protect against all threats, be they homegrown or foreign. That means that terrorism isn't a big deal. Or something.

Some people on the left are more concerned with the Tea-Partiers than AQ. Maybe if AQ protests Obamacare they'll pay them some attention...
 
Are you serious? This guy only managed to wound two police officers. Al Qaeda, on the other hand, brought down the World Trade Center, blew up four airliners, blew up a section of the Pentagon, and killed nearly 3,000 civilians.

How could you make such an inane statement?

Because terrorism isn't really that big of a threat, so I can understand making light of it.

We had over 37k traffic fatalities in 2008 (couldn't find states for 2009). Terrorism is less than 1/10th that over almost a decade. Our response is not proportional to the threat.

Their acts might be big and showy, but if you look at the numbers, they accomplish very little and aren't worth worrying about and they certainly aren't worth going into debt as a nation for (as we have). People should be more brave, seriously, its pathetic.
 
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Another example that homegrown nutjobs are more dangerous to this country than the terrorist boogeyman we are spending billions on to thwart.
Oh yeah, you got really solid proof now. You can take it to court. :roll:
 
Because terrorism isn't really that big of a threat, so I can understand making light of it.

We had over 37k traffic fatalities in 2008 (couldn't find states for 2009). Terrorism is less than 1/10th that over almost a decade. Our response is not proportional to the threat.

Their acts might be big and showy, but if you look at the numbers, they accomplish very little and aren't worth worrying about and they certainly aren't worth going into debt as a nation for (as we have). People should be more brave, seriously, its pathetic.

This is such nonsense. 9/11 changed our entire country forever. It had long-lasting negative effects on our economy and infrastructure. You're unbelievably naive if you think the terrorists aren't "really that big of a threat".
 
Because terrorism isn't really that big of a threat, so I can understand making light of it.

We had over 37k traffic fatalities in 2008 (couldn't find states for 2009). Terrorism is less than 1/10th that over almost a decade. Our response is not proportional to the threat.

Their acts might be big and showy, but if you look at the numbers, they accomplish very little and aren't worth worrying about and they certainly aren't worth going into debt as a nation for (as we have). People should be more brave, seriously, its pathetic.

Thank you. My point exactly. And there are more homegrown nut jobs to come. Mark my words. One may even call himself a teabagger.
 
This is such nonsense. 9/11 changed our entire country forever. It had long-lasting negative effects on our economy and infrastructure. You're unbelievably naive if you think the terrorists aren't "really that big of a threat".

Death count wise they aren't.
 
This is such nonsense. 9/11 changed our entire country forever.

How? I don't see much a difference, except we are more paranoid. But as I said, we need to be more brave.

It had long-lasting negative effects on our economy and infrastructure.

Based on fear? Sure we lost some buildings. The economic effects, such as air lines and tourism suffering were again based on people not being brave. If people were rational, they would be more afraid to drive to work. It looks like the biggest impact was all the money we wasted on war, especially Iraq.

You're unbelievably naive if you think the terrorists aren't "really that big of a threat".

If the best they can do is knock down a couple of buildings and the occasional small scale bomb, than they are pretty pathetic.

I don't want to trivialize anyone's suffering, but it was a very small scale injury to the country and our reaction is disproportionate.
 
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Death count wise they aren't.


Neither is the death count from nuclear weapons, but we seem to take them pretty seriously don't we?

(don’t bring up Nagasaki or Hiroshima….. I’d just have to bring up Dresden, Hamburg,Tokyo, etc..... I think you know where I'd be going)
 
I read that the guy thought we should use marijuana as currency.

Good ol' fashioned bonkers, that one.
 
Another example that homegrown nutjobs are more dangerous to this country than the terrorist boogeyman we are spending billions on to thwart.

Wait a minute here...

Why do you say that? On what data do you propose this? Are you comparing number of attacks of Jihadist hits versus non-Jihadist hits? Death count of one versus the other?
 
I read that the guy thought we should use marijuana as currency.

Good ol' fashioned bonkers, that one.

I think we've found one illness of which marijuana has no medicinal or theraputic usefulness.
 
Neither is the death count from nuclear weapons, but we seem to take them pretty seriously don't we?

(don’t bring up Nagasaki or Hiroshima….. I’d just have to bring up Dresden, Hamburg,Tokyo, etc..... I think you know where I'd be going)

Yes. Because countries that have bombs tend to be able to mass produce them and have an advanced military infrastructure. Plus there is a world of difference between training for years to take down a few buildings and being able to drop 10 or 12 bombs at the drop of a hat.
 
Another example that homegrown nutjobs are more dangerous to this country than the terrorist boogeyman we are spending billions on to thwart.

Look at the number of terrorists that have managed to penetrate the safety net and think about many more would do so, if we weren't actively combatting them. It would most certainly yield more American casualties than one lone nutjob pistoleer.
 
Look at the number of terrorists that have managed to penetrate the safety net and think about many more would do so, if we weren't actively combatting them. It would most certainly yield more American casualties than one lone nutjob pistoleer.

I agree. Look at the increased numbers of terrorist explosions in Baghdad now that we have left security there to the Iraqis who, apparently, have a more relaxed view of terrorism than U.S. forces.
 
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